The Dow Jones Industrial Average, America’s most popular stock market indicator, is down about 4000 points from its all-time high of 26,000 something. Most of…

Why does Vladimir Putin bother trying to destabilise the West? It seems to be doing a perfectly good job without Russian mischief. Or, for that…

Brexit is unresolved, concern grows that Britain will stumble into a ‘hard’ departure from the European Union with unknown consequences, and share prices are plummeting…

What a sorry state this country, this sceptic isle, is in. The disunited kingdom is ruled by an incompetent government led by a floundering prime…

Paris and London find themselves in crisis right now and each has responded very differently. It was always so. In France, President Emmanuel Macron attempts…

What do I like least in the world, a reader has asked; (though why I’m not sure?). So, with apologies to Mr Hammerstein II, and…

It is a decent convention to refrain from saying anything too nasty about the recently departed, but I don’t think it breaks the rule to…